Mammography

A mammogram is a picture of your breast taken with a safe, low-dose X-ray machine. Your technologist will ask you to stand facing the mammography machine, and then place one breast at a time on a flat surface.

Indications for a Mammography:

• Preoperative mammography
• Evaluation of breast signs and symptoms Pain, mass, discharge, skin thickening, nipple retraction
• Follow up of breast cancer
• Work up of a patient with metastasis from an unknown primary tumor
• Mammographic screening